looked upon with distrust. If he has won any reputation as a writer, it is immediately lost. All his work is regarded with suspicion, until he is looked upon as a mean, sneaking outcast.

Many of our chapel essays are straight "cribs," we regret to say. The authors may think it smart to get up before the college and read them. It is disgraceful and humiliating to us to be compelled to listen. We cannot suppress a smile of pity when a production worthy of a Milton or a Thackeray is read by a man of no literary ability. But when we hear an essay worthy of a Macaulay read by a man who has won distinction as a writer, and recognize Macaulay's familiar sentences, we want to hoot him off the stage. In the November number of the "LIT." such an essay was published by a member of the Sophmore class. There MAY BE one or two original sentences in it. Otherwise not only all the ideas but even whole sentences bodily are taken from various essays of Macaulay and Shaw's "History of English and American Literature."

Let the members of the college think of the consequences of plagiarism before they attempt it. We have in mind an example that happened in Yale College a short time ago. A Senior of high literary ability and a member of one of the prominent societies, was detected plagiarizing. He was expelled from his society and was shunned by the college as if he were a leper.

We do not care to comment further on this matter. We think the simple mention of the essay a sufficient warning. The professor in charge of the Rhetorical Department should mark all such essays zero and consider that their authors have failed in a chapel appointment. This is the simplest and best way to stop that most contemptible and cowardly of all thieving— plagiarism.

We must say in justice to ourselves that we discovered the real authors of the essay too late to give them credit.

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Politics in the Scholar.

The old adage, a watched pot never boils," is not always reliable. Ever since that distant day when the "scholar in politics" first became a subject of investigation, our colleges have been watched by anxious observers of the quantity and quality of their political output. And still they continue to furnish about the same proportion as formerly to the ranks of those in public office; and their representatives continue to be a little more cultured perhaps, and perhaps a little more successful, but not perceptibly better or wiser than their fellows who have not received a college education. Patriotism and sound political judgment do not seem to be distinctly cultivated by collegiate influences.

This is as we might expect. These good qualities are only in the slightest degree to be brought out by precept and instruction. Yet it is impossible to doubt that the political tone of college-bred men is affected by influences at work in undergraduate days. Among other circumstances which exercise such an influence, we wish now to call attention to certain habits acquired in the debating room. On how many of the great questions which are to

occupy the public mind for the next twenty or fifty years, do college men form their opinions haphazard, by the chance of obtaining a certain position in debate? How many men take sides on these questions merely because they have something to say in defence of their position on one side, while on the other they find no convenient "material?" In how many men is the faculty of honest judgment corrupted, and all interest made stale by the unending discussion of this brief list of questions? With how many does the possibility of creditably supporting a position outweigh all considerations of its truth or falsity?

These are questions which deserve consideration. Whether anything can be done to diminish the evils which they suggest is doubtful. We must either sacrifice the genuineness and spontaneity of our political convictions, or deprive ourselves of the subjects which offer the most attractive fields for debate. Something can be accomplished by making use of all the nonpolitical questions which suggest themselves as suitable, and by making good use of such merely transitory topics as the present controversy between the President and the Senate.

Around College.

-Reviews.

-Late bohning.

-Classical examination the 25th.

-Prize examination in chemistry the 25th.

-Cary, '84, and King, '85, were on the Hill recently.

-Sherwood, '86, was lately called away to attend the funeral of his father. —Rev. Waiter S. Peterson, '72, preached in the College Chapel, March 7. —Dr. Hamilton preached an eloquent sermon at Auburn, Sunday, February 21st.

--On February 16th, the day of Horatio Seymour's funeral, there were no college exercises.

—Hamilton opens her season on the diamond with the Cornell nine, at Clinton, May 15.

—Haines, '87, and Bradley, '88, were delegates to the late Y. M. C. A. Convention at Elmira.

-A large number of students went down to Utica to hear the Boston Ideals, February 25 and 27.

-Prof. Hoyt preached at Rome, N. Y., February 14th, and Prof. Hopkins at Lowville, March 14.

—Building stone has been drawn for laying the foundations of the new Delta Upsilon Chapter House.

-Curtiss & Smith, of Syracuse, '86 Class photographers, were in Clinton from the 2nd to the 12th of March.

-Curtiss & Smith, of Syracuse, our class photographers, will take the photographs for Houghton Seminary.

-Prof.-What can you state in regard to John Bunyan? StudentHe was born in England at a very early age.

-The freshmen have finally decided to have an algebra “show." We feared they did not have enough spirit to organize for it.

-The coasting has been very poor as well as dangerous this year. Peck, '87, and Ellinwood '88, have broken legs as a consequence.

-The date of holding the State Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association meeting, in Utica, has been changed from the 29th to the 26th of May.

-A Senior, recently, in giving a comprehensive definition of a circle, electrified the class by stating: "A circle is a figure bounded by a straight line."

-Eells, '87, was called home to attend the funeral of his father, the Rev. Dr. James Eells, '44, President of Lane Theological Seminary, who died suddenly March 9.

-Editor Gilbert, of the Utica Heraid, lectured before the Emerson Literary Society, Friday evening, February 12. Wallace Bruce favored them with his lecture on "Native Mettle," the following week.

-Please remember that your subscription to the MONTHLY is already over due. All undergraduates will prepare for settlement the first week of the coming term. Alurani should attend to the matter at once.

-The Executive Committee of the State Inter-Collegiate Base Ball Association, held a meeting in Syracuse, March 9th. C. S. Van Auken represented Hamilton. A schedule of games was made, and Spaulding's League ball was adopted.

-A college meeting was held at noon on February 13. Sicard, '86, resigned the office of President of the Athletic Association, and Van Auken, '86, was elected to fill the vacancy. Mason, '86, was chosen manager of the Glee Club, in place of Myers, '87.

-Cornell's gymnasium has a wire inclosure in which her athletes practice daily. While we have not the same opportunities, our men should take advantage of all we have. A little training in the gymnasium now will help the nine wonderfully in the spring.

-The winter orations have been announced. Pruyn Medal-“Scholar in Politics," Edward Fitch, Walton, N. Y. Head Prize—“ Military Services of Alex. Hamilton," W. H. Hotchkiss, Olean, N. Y. Kirkland-"Oratory of the Apostles," Harry B. Tolles, Attica, N. Y.

Book Notices.

Diagram of Parliamentary Rules, by Uriah Smith. Review and Herald Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich.:

The distinguishing feature of the work before us is a diagram which answers at a glance any ordinary question about any motion. A table of motions is so arranged as to show which motion in any case takes precedence. Each motion is in turn connected by a system of lines with the affirmative and negative rules which bear upon the subject in question. This arrangement is unique and the required information is readily furnished at the instant it is needed. There is also a key to the diagram, containing in clear and concise form all that is required for an accurate knowl

edge of parliamentary law. The whole forms a work valuable alike to the novice and the skilled parliamentarian.

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Handbook of Whist" by "Major Tenace." G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

This book is a compendium of the important rules of whist as laid down by Pole, Cavendish and the London Club rules. It has no originality save in the order of presenting them. It is intended for the use of those conversant with the subject. Its plan is three-fold to treat each topic exhaustively, to show the relative importance of each direction, and to make the book easy for reference. The author has more than accomplished his purpose. His style is terse, interesting, and to the point. Its chief value lies in the fact that it is easy for reference.

Other Colleges.

-Williams has a Toboggan Club.

—All classes at Princeton have adopted anti-hazing resolutions.

-Michigan University supports the champion college runner of America —Dr. Anderson, of Chicago University, has accepted the Presidency of Vassar.

-The presentation of "The Country Girl" at Amherst, was a decided

success.

-The Faculty of Wellesley will not allow the students to publish a paper.-Ex.

-At Racine College the examinations are now given without previous notice.--Ex.

-A student of Indiana University has been suspended for "fraud practiced in examinations."

-The Dramatic Association of Princeton, will produce "The Rivals," some time this month.

-The Faculty of Bates College have lately passed the following resolution: "No student shall be molested by a fellow student on account of what he may wear or carry."

-0. 4. X. held its annual convention at New York on February 20th. Sixteen chapters were represented.

-The students of the University of Pennsylvania are rehearsing a Greek play, to be performed next month.

-A prize has been offered by the Handel Society of Dartmouth, for the "best distinctively Dartmouth song."

-The Fourth Annual Conference of the College Y. M. C. Association of New England, is now in session at Brown.

-The expenses of the Princeton foot ball association were over $2,000, most of which was raised from the gate money.

-The Freshman Class at Yale contains a man who is reported to have broken the college record for running high jump.

-A movement is on foot to establish an athletic association among the Pennsylvania colleges similar to the one in this State.

-Ex-Gov. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, has been delivering a course of lectures on protection, before the students of Williams College.

-The ladies at Oberlin College recently debated this question: "Resolved, that the extreme development of the intellect chills and destroys the affections."

-The young ladies of the University of Toronto have formed a Recluse Club, the rules of which forbid "speaking to, or walking with, any of the gentlemen undergraduates within the college halls, or on the lawn, or within the enclosure of the grounds."—Ex.

-The students of Princeton celebrated Washington's birthday in a way which may commend itself to the attention of other colleges. Appropriate exercises were held commemorative of the day, and orations were given by representative men of the several classes.

-The Yale News gives some statistics of the freshman class: The oldest man is 26, the youngest, 15 years, 11 months. The man with the largest head, measuring 23% in., is in the lowest division in scholarship. The man who owns the smallest head, 19% in., is in the first division.

-Of the students who graduate at the German gymnasia and enter the universities, five and a half per cent. only, are as young as seventeen, nineteen per cent. are eighteen, twenty-eight per cent. are nineteen, twenty-five per cent. are twenty and twenty-three per cent. are over twenty.-Ex.

Exchanges.

-Our bi-weekly vistor, the Brunonion, is never at a loss for words of advice. Right nobly and successfully does it address itself to the task of correcting the faults and failings of college journalism.

- A late number of the Berkeleyan contains some very interesting notes on physical education in various colleges of the United States. The facts show that there is among educators a growing interest in this subject; that those who need such education most, are those who will get it only when required; that a competent physician is needed, whose duty is the care and preservation of student health by properly regulated exercise.

-An exchange furnishes the following news from Hobart: "The annual Sophomore exhibition of prize speaking by the college students will take place in the halls of the Union school building to-night at half-past seven. There are seven contestants for the prize, and the exhibition promises to be an unusually interesting one. The exhibition is free and public." The annexation of Hobart college to the Union school of Geneva, we sincerely hope will not be disastrous to this enterprising preparatory institution.

One of the most valuable of our exchanges is the Southern Collegian of Washington and Lee University. The Collegian is a literary magazine that furnishes both variety and excellence in its fifty pages of reading matter. The February number contains a well-written and thoughtful essay on Junius. The classic soil of Virginia ought to furnish inspiration for origi nal poetry, of which we find none in the issue before us, although the translations from Latin and German show a good degree of poetic skill.